 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - Earth - 1817 - 394 pages
...; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form n solid mass with it, as high- as the common tides reach....property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is visually called a key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Fossils - 1818 - 458 pages
...except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form...remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called &key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with ;t, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...beyond low-water mark; but vhe coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, tihere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high...remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive properly ; and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called a kt'y, upon the top of the... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark ; but the coral sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tide reaches. That elevation surpassed, the future ones, being scarcely covered, lose their adhesive... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1828 - 590 pages
...except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark: but the coral sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tide reaches. That elevation surpassed, the future ones, being scarcely covered, lose their adhesive... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral sand, and other remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form...and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually culled a key, upon the tops of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea hirds; salt... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1832 - 832 pages
...them, and cannot raise the reef beyond low water mark ; but the fragments of rock, sand, coral, &c., adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it,...reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, beingrarely covered, lose their adhesive property, and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1833 - 502 pages
...perhaps many more fathoms. To be constantly covered with water seems necessary to the existence of these animalcules, for they do not work, except upon holes...rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the comL mon tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...but the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by tbe sea, adhere to the rock, and form & solid mass with it, as high as the common tides reach....remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called a lu-//, upon the top of the reef The new hank is not long in being visited by sea-birds; salt-plants... | |
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... high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called u key, upon the top of the reef. 
